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Lynne Olson talked about her book, Freedom’s Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970. The book contains the untold story of the extraordinary women, bot…

Author Debra Dickerson talked about her autobiography An American Story, published by Pantheon Books. The book examines her life and her rise from the black working middle class through the …

Ms. Dickerson talked about her book, The End of Blackness: Returning the Souls of Black Folk to Their Rightful Owners, published by Pantheon Books. In the book, the author explores the conc…

Mr. Thelwell talked about Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael, published by Scribner. Mr. Carmichael, who changed his name to Kwame Ture in 1978 in honor of h…

Drs. Davis, Jenkins, and Hunt discussed their book, The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream, published by Riverhead Books. In it, they tell the story of how a pact they …

Rebecca Walker discussed her book Black ,White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self, published by Riverhead Books. In her book and talk, Ms. Walker recounts the story of her quest t…

Co-editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. talked about his book Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience, published by Hardcover. Mr. Gates talked about the early eff…

Author Erin Gruwell and her students talked about their book The Freedom Writers Diary. The book is a collection of diary entries from their freshmen English class. They focused on how the b…

Ms. hooks talks about her book, Happy to Be Nappy, published by Hyperion. She focused on how the book teaches African-American children to be proud of their distinct characteristics, and her…

Author John Hope Franklin talked about his book From Slavery to Freedom published by McGraw Hill Text. Alfred A. Moss was a contributor to the book. It was about the history of African-Ameri…